Graeme Nattress
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If it’s just a trailer and rough you need, it might just be easiest, and certainly cheapest to dub your HDCAM to DVCAM, and edit with a DV proxy, similarly with the HDV. When you’re ready to online, you can uprez your media from the DVCAM timecode. I’d also be tempted to dub the HDV to HDCAM, and take a DVCAM dub of that as well for your offline, and then, when you come to online, you’re doing it all off timecod HDCAM.
Graeme
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Perhaps they’ll let us trade out “P2” NAB swipe cards in for the real thing, loaded with glorious HDX200 footage on it??
Graeme
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Editing DV uncompressed is only of value if mastering to a higher format such as Digital Betacam, and even so, this does not require you to capture it uncompressed, as DV is always DV.
However, Quicktime does not smooth DV chroma, so if bumping to a higher format you should do this by:
1) capture component will smooth chroma, but will introduce noise and artifacts due to an analogue process being involved – not recommended
2) capture over SDI uncompressed. Easiest workflow if you’ve got the gear to handle it, but you need big fast drives, SDI card and SDI equipped DV deck
3) capture Firewie, smooth with Apple 4:1:1 chroma smoothing filter
4) capture Firewire, use my G Nicer chroma reconstruction filter. Does nicest job, but slowest to render.Graeme
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And you won’t get any better picture quality – so why bother??
Graeme
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Archiving to optical disk does not imply converting to MPEG2. When I archive my program code to DVDs, I don’t turn my program code into MPEG2 🙂 You’re just going to be using them as a data device, not a video device, just like the other suggestion to use DLT or something like it.
Graeme
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Well, that’s a DLT drive then, isn’t it? An automated P2 to DLT would be nice, but it would be probably cheaper to make one yourself with an old PC.
Graeme
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A DVCproHD tape drive, even cut down to just those features would be quite expensive, probably not much less than the $20,000 of the DVCproHD AJ1200A.
Personally, I think Sony have it all wrong with XDCAM. Those discs are practically perfect for longer term storage, not for aquisition. Failing that, we’ll have writable blu-ray very soon, and that should take care of most of our needs.
Graeme
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Surely by the time we all get to use an HDX200, we’ll just be able to FTP our finished programme to the broadcaster’s server. They don’t really want tape any more than we do. They don’t want to buy expensive decks when they have that lovely big media server. Surely, the answer will be just to stick it on a hard drive and ship the drive to them until internet connections become fast enough. Or burn it on multiple DVDs, or blur rays.
Graeme
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What does 16:9 1280×1080 work out at? I don’t know enough about the physics of CCD sensitivity to question or confim your maths.
Graeme
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I thought it worked out to about 2.3 : 1, but lets not split hairs. It’s visually lossless over multiple generations, and that’s what counts.
Graeme
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